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- noun Plural form of
dactyl .
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Triplets are called dactyls or anapests in the official lingo, depending on whether they start with an upbeat or not.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Triplets are called dactyls or anapests in the official lingo, depending on whether they start with an upbeat or not.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Suppose we him, however, possessed of industry and genius; his genius is fettered in dactyls and spondees, and his eloquence exercised in languages which none but the learned can understand, and which, when produced by a modern, the learned themselves care not to examine.
Letter 177 1798
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"Triplets are called dactyls or anapests in the official lingo, depending on whether they start with an upbeat or not," Chowder says, while discussing Tennyson.
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Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee.
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Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee.
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Mother, bold as always, moved in close to assess the damage, and then announced, “Kowaru-kun has crushed two of his dactyls!”
Clab's Craws Marc Lowe 2011
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I, Montese Crandall, rely heavily on such strategies as alliteration, condensation, the strange, ghostly echo of metrical feet, iambs and dactyls, spondees and amphibrachs.
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Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee.
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Two dactyls, two trochees per line, if you count the first syllable of each line as a pickup held over from the last trochee.
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